Alice Riccardi

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I have been teaching yoga since and am a Hour Certified Baptiste Power Yoga teacher  I am a Yin Yoga teacher training with Josh Summers in a Yoga Nidra teacher as well as a Certified Alexander Technique teacher In the spring of I became certified mediator as qualified through University of Southern Maine USM in Portland I graduated from Hampshire College with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and was a professional modern dancer for years studying and performing in NYC Boston and LA   I learned the technique of Transcendental Meditation when I was and meditated twice a day for years  At the year mark I was introduced to the Shambala Meditation practice and continue my sitting practice based on the teachings of Chogyam Rinpoche I have also studied Vipassana meditation as well as the mindfulness practices of the Buddhist tradition   I began practicing at the Baptiste Studio in Cambridge MA in and became a class assistant later that year  I started teaching at the studio in and from to I assisted and/or produced Baptiste programs at Kripalu Institute Omega Institute and Maya Tulum Mexico  I also assisted programs in Texas Montana Utah and Chicago I had the good fortune to work directly under the tutelage of Baron Baptiste as well as master teacher Rolf Gates  I am currently under the mentorship of master teacher Coeli Marsh I owned Portland Power Yoga in Portland Maine for years with my husband Charles Terhune  The studio opened in and was the first heated Baptiste Power Yoga studio in Maine  I owned the studio for years Following the sale of PPY I became the Director of Teachers at Down Dog Yoga in Washington DC owned by Patty Ivey  Down Dog Yoga was the first heated Baptiste Studio in DC and from one studio there are now premiere studios in the greater DC area I currently teach at a multi faceted studio in Scarborough Maine called CRISP  This facility is the first of its kind to successfully offer yoga boot camp and spin classes in three dedicated spaces within one large space with their speciality FUSION classes combining modalities in a one hour format     I have led two Hour YA Teacher Trainings with the Portland Power Yoga School one Hour YA TT at Scarborough Yoga School and three Hour trainings at Down Dog Yoga  I led  the first Baptiste inspired Hour YA Teacher Training in October -January at Iceland Power Yoga in Reykjavik the first ever Baptiste Power Yoga studio in the Northern Hemisphere  I have also led Yin Yoga teacher trainings at Down Dog Yoga in DC at Iceland Power Yoga and at Grace & Glory Studio a Baptiste affiliate in Northfield NJ  I have also coordinated and led yoga retreats at the Eco-Resort Blue Osa in Costa Rica and at Quinta Minuvida in the Azores I have done extensive work with Landmark Corporation and am a graduate of The Forum Forum in Action The Advanced Course and SELP - Self Expression and Leader Program  I have been a coach for the SELP course and an assistant to Forum Leaders producer for the Forum and an assistant to Teen Forums  I am a graduate of the program Being in Action now called iEvolve and its follow up program JUMPSTART  These programs are part of the curriculum of Concord Institute in London England  Both Landmark and Concord Institute work under the premise that: The most effective pathway to change is grounded in a model of transformative learning Informative learning adds to peoples skills by bringing new knowledge; transformative learning gives people an awareness of the basic structures in which they know think and act From that awareness comes a fundamental shift that leaves people more fully in accord with their own possibilities and those of others My trainings and my focus in training teachers to teach is to facilitate the process of experiential learning as opposed to an accumulation of facts  I believe its crucial for yoga teachers in fact all teachers to be equally interested in who they are being with the student along in tandem with their intellectual knowledge     My speciality is teaching Yin yoga to power yoga students and specifically Baptiste Power Yoga students and teachers  I use the Baptiste Methodology as a platform to understand the subtle energies of the Koshas Chakras and Meridian Systems making the concepts less esoteric and more straightforward in their understanding   My trainings are multi faceted in that I like to work with practice practice teaching journaling self-inquiry videos partnering etc to bring all levels of learning into the students experience  Its also important for yoga students who want to become teachers to understand the fundamental aspects of movement  before going into the classroom to teach  In my classes and trainings I work with the principles of the Alexander Technique the Dart Procedures developmental and "evolutionary" movement based on the work of Bartenieff and Mabel Todd as a blueprint for the foundation of asana study as well as the Principles of True North Alignment as created by Baron Baptiste  I have been teaching and practicing the Journey into Power Sequence developed by Baron Baptiste for years and believe it is the physical foundation for the ultimate transformation of body mind and spirit  Along with mediation and self-inquiry the "purpose of the Baptiste Methodology is to awaken and empower human beings to live life full in wholeness and full potential as a moment to moment phenomenon".